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hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8-2B-Distill-GGUF:BF16

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 1.94B · BF16

Good

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
66 vs 89
Hardware Fit
100 vs 95
Quality Score
52 vs 87

Hardware

hf.co/empero-ai/Qw… qwen/qwen3-8b
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM16 GB64 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

hf.co/empero-ai/Qw… qwen/qwen3-8b
Tokens/sec40.233.4
First chunk101 ms257 ms
TTFT101 ms257 ms
Load time2.6 sN/A
Memory usage4.7 GB4.3 GB
Memory %30%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
1/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

qwen/qwen3-8b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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